Word: storing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sales. Second ambiguity in the lists is that they give no figures on sales. When The Citadel was a leading seller in the small, busy Matthews Book Store in Omaha, Neb. and in the medium-sized, modern Greenwood Book Shop in the Delaware Trust Bldg. in the heart of Wilmington, it was not doing so well at Kroch's in Chicago, one of the six biggest bookstores in the U. S., which sells ten times more books each year than do the other stores. But all three stores had equal standing in the Herald Tribune list. Before Red Star...
...Evansville, Ind., Harry Lang of Harry Lang, Inc. (which manufactures lubricants, owns Evansville Home Oil, Inc., Dixie Dance Wax, Inc. and a string of four gas stations) pays State and Federal income taxes, social security, encumbrance, personal property, gasoline, corporation, capital stock, truck wheel, chain-store taxes. This year these taxes will take $30,000, 20% of Harry Lang's gross. Last week Harry Lang announced: "I just wrote the President that I'd be willing to do it the other way around. Let him own the business and let me run it for him for five years...
...biggest wholesalers is Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. of Chicago. Its president, Charles John Whipple, has always been distressed by the confused conservatism of hardware retailing. In the last few years he has persuaded 300 of his customers to let him remodel their stores, put their goods out where the customers could see them, make shelves and counters a little more presentable. Last week Mr. Whipple's ideas about retailing culminated in a full-sized, completely outfitted hardware store, set up to the astonishment of the Illinois Retail Hardware Association convention in a display room of Chicago's Hotel...
...front was yellow, blue and red. Inside, the woodwork was bleached oak. The walls were pastel blue. The goods were displayed on the counters in grocery-store fashion. In the back was a storeroom. The price was $6,500 for the store (which naturally did not include the building), $3,500 for the stock. In two days Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett sold nine stores...
Death Wears a White Gardenia-Zelda Popkin-Lippincott ($2). The death by strangulation of the credit manager of a big department store, solved by plodding store detectives to the humiliation of kibitzing professional sleuths...